Should we not have respect enough to God to make a record of those blessings which He pours out upon us and our official acts which we do in His name upon the face of the earth? I think we should.

The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this church to lead you astray.

Trust in God. Do your duty. Remember your prayers. Get faith in the Lord, and take hold and build up Zion. All will be right.

You may have the administration of angels, you may see many miracles; . . . but I claim that the gift of the Holy Ghost is the greatest gift that can be bestowed upon man.

The moment a man or a woman becomes angry they show a great weakness.

We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.

I wish to say to the Latter-day Saints, all that we have to do is be faithful, to keep His commandments, to be humble, to seek Him in mighty prayer, and all will be well with us.

It takes just as much to save a dead man as a living man.

I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write . . . .

If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

We are willing to stand by the revelations of God.

You have to walk with the Creator to find your soul.

A street full of shadows will teach you what life is much better than the street full of lights!

Life is a vacation God gives to you!

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity.

A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.

I understand that coffee and cigarettes are cool, fashionable and all that. But agree the tea with cookies still taste better.

The miraculous power of the healing we create through crisis can be as stunning as looking at the sun.

If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.

Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.